{"id":142979,"date":"2025-06-17T12:41:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T09:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/142979\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"nobel-prize-winning-author-aleksijevic-working-on-a-new-book","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/142979\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksijevi\u010d working on a new book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>June 17, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> \u015aviatlana Aleksijevi\u010d, a Nobel Prize-winning author from Belarus, told readers in Warsaw yesterday that she is writing a book about the 2020 unrest, based on her interviews with its exiled protest participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI can honestly say that I have a hard time with words now,\u201d Aleksijevi\u010d said. \u201cIt is very hard because I do not know how to get through to the post-red [Soviet] man yet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said that her interviewees told her they did not give up despite their defeat. They shared a philosophy of \u201csmall deeds\u201d that allowed them to hang on. \u201cSo, we cannot just agree that democracy is retreating in today\u2019s world,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, she warned readers of hard times ahead. The working title of her book is Waiting for New Barbarians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talking about books of love and death she had announced about 10 years ago, Aleksijevi\u010d said she had postponed it to focus on her analysis of the \u201cred man.\u201d \u201cI should finish writing him and see how he is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 17, Pozirk. \u015aviatlana Aleksijevi\u010d, a Nobel Prize-winning author from Belarus, told readers in Warsaw yesterday that she is writing a book about the 2020 unrest, based on her interviews with its exiled protest participants. \u201cI can honestly say that I have a hard time with words now,\u201d Aleksijevi\u010d said. \u201cIt is very hard because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":61648,"template":"","rubric":[15],"class_list":["post-142979","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized 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